“My people have turned into an army, they have seen the destruction and the bloodshed shed by the enemy,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently told the plenary session of the Italian parliament.
“I said a week ago that 79 children had been killed. It is now 117, and it is not the final account. Tens of thousands of families were destroyed, as were millions of homes. “My people bury their dead in parks, in mass graves,” Zelensky added.
He also stressed that Mariupol, which was completely destroyed, had a population of 500,000, like the Italian city of Genoa. “We need peace, but we only see and hear sirens, bombs and rockets,” Zelensky said.
“The Russians are raping, killing, torturing. “Like the Nazis in World War II,” he said. The Ukrainian president insisted that “this war was organized only by Vladimir Putin” and called for increased sanctions against Moscow.
At the same time, he predicted that Ukraine would not be able to continue its exports and agricultural production, due to the huge disaster, the bombing.
Volodymyr Zelensky called on the Italians not to welcome other Russian tourists and to continue the seizure of the assets belonging to the oligarchs. “You are hosting more than 70,000 refugees, 25,000 are children. We are grateful to you “, he underlined addressing the members of the Italian parliament.
“Stop just one man, so that millions of Ukrainians can survive,” Zelensky concluded. He did not fail to characterize “very important” what he said to him this morning Pope Francis in their telephone conversation.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, in a speech shortly after the Ukrainian president’s speech, described the resistance in Mariupol and all other Ukrainian cities as “heroic” and added that “Italy expresses its deep gratitude to this people.”
“Our country is not looking elsewhere, the goal of sanctions is for Russia to come to the negotiating table honestly,” Draghi said.
He recalled that Italy has “frozen” assets of Russian oligarchs worth more than 800 million euros and that it aims to overcome its energy dependence on Russia.
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